Originally posted by donhuangenaro
well, nothing new for military industrial complex to spread conflicts, they need money and to look like they are winning the 'war on terror',

but they are not...

Well if they control the conflicts, and spread them to regions they wish to bring under control or "punish", then they can just as easily end
them.
Being in near total control is victory in it self.

The only thing that can stop them is if the people as one united entity rise up and throw the corrupt governments out of office. And the corrupt
governments, made up of corrupt individuals whose only interest is money and power driven by greed, are found everywhere.

Of course they can also use the people to do their work of overthrowing governments that wont bend to their will, by using NGO's and other "fake"
organisations/groups/associations that they control and are behind. Just like all those colour revolutions.

Ties to plots against U.S.
Meanwhile, there have been increasing Yemeni ties to plots against the United States. A Muslim man charged in the June 1 killing of a soldier at a
recruiting center in a mall in Little Rock, Ark., had traveled to Yemen, prompting a review by the F.B.I. of other domestic extremists who had
visited the country.

A radical cleric in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, has been linked to numerous terrorism suspects, including Nidal Malik Hasan, the American Army major who
faces murder charges in the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November.

In the latest issue of Sada al-Malahim, the Internet magazine of the Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, the group’s leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, praised the
use of small bombs — not just big ones — to attack an enemy, in an eerie foreshadowing of Friday’s episode on the plane to Detroit.

The U.S. and Yemen are now looking at fresh targets in Yemen for a potential retaliation strike, two senior U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday, in the
aftermath of the botched Christmas Day attack on an airliner that al Qaeda in Yemen claims it organized.

The officials asked not to be not be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information. They both stressed the effort is aimed at being
ready with options for the White House if President Obama orders a retaliatory strike. The effort is to see whether targets can be specifically linked
to the airliner incident and its planning.

U.S. special operations forces and intelligence agencies, and their Yemeni counterparts, are working to identify potential al Qaeda targets in Yemen,
one of the officials said. This is part of a new classified agreement with the Yemeni government that the two countries will work together and that
the U.S. will remain publicly silent on its role in providing intelligence and weapons to conduct strikes.

Officially the U.S. has not said it conducted previous airstrikes in Yemen, but officials are privately saying the Yemeni military could not have
carried out the strikes on its own.

By all accounts, the agreement would allow the U.S. to fly cruise missiles, fighter jets or unmanned armed drones against targets in Yemen with the
consent of that government.

Yemen is so small and unimportant that the most the US will do is air raids.. If we did any troop activity it will sure to be special forces.. there
is simply no reason to go inside Yemen with troops to tople a government.

What is badly needed in that entire region is another Lawrence of Arabia, to unite the Arabic countries and too gain sum stability against extremist
groups. Unless of course it is just a black gold rush situation..

Foreign forces will not achieve this ever and will further fuel the "terror" conflict. Assistance and guidance might help but direct conflict will
not win it I don't think.

But... and I am still going to stick to this.. I don't think we will send in an occupying force to protect and or dismantle the government.. I've
read your thread, and I simply don't see justification for occupation, be it to protect or dismantle the regime. I don't see "what's in it for
us" .. if we DO .. I will be very, very surprised.. it would probably be a Somalia type deal, and not so much full scale occupation..

But who knows, it certainly is getting more attention than I thought it would..

I'm not certain the actual motivation, but I'm quite certain that Yemen figures in a MAJOR way with some new strategy in the Middle East. Perhaps,
it is just the perfect candidate to remove troops to from Iraq...or maybe it really is about protecting the Saudi's.....or oil....or shipping....
or....

Whatever it is, the escalation in rhetoric is undeniable. See these items from today's news alone:

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